Up betimes, and to my Office, where we had a meeting extraordinary to consider of several things, among others the sum of money fit to be demanded ready money, to enable us to set out 27 ships, every body being now in pain for a fleete, and everybody endeavouring to excuse themselves for the not setting out of one, and our true excuse is lack of money.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Hasten, then, to the spot of thy nativity, the abode of thy youth, where never yet care or sorrow had power to annoy thee.-O that they might ever be banished this peaceful dwelling!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The five planets and their positions in the Zodiac are thus enumerated by both commentators: the Sun in Aries, Mars in Capricorn, Saturn in Libra, Jupiter in Cancer, Venus in Pisces.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He replied, ‘You speak truly, for you and many more have need to redeem their sins by good works, and when they cease from temporal labours, then to labour the more eagerly for desire of eternal blessings; but this very few do; for I, having now gone through all this monastery in order, have looked into the huts 718 and beds of all, and found [pg 284] none of them except yourself busy about the health of his soul; but all of them, both men and women, are either sunk in slothful sleep, or are awake in order to commit sin; for even the cells that were built for prayer or reading, are now converted into places of feasting, drinking, talking, and other delights; the very virgins dedicated to God, laying aside the respect due to their profession, whensoever they are at leisure, apply themselves to weaving fine garments, wherewith to adorn themselves like brides, to the danger of their state, or to gain the friendship of strange men; for which reason, as is meet, a heavy judgement from Heaven with raging fire is ready to fall on this place and those that dwell therein.’
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

"In which case this granite would not exist, but be in a state of fusion."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

I soon had enough of it, and yet I would not but have seen it once, it being strange to observe the nature of these poor creatures, how they will fight till they drop down dead upon the table, and strike after they are ready to give up the ghost, not offering to run away when they are weary or wounded past doing further, whereas where a dunghill brood comes he will, after a sharp stroke that pricks him, run off the stage, and then they wring off his neck without more ado, whereas the other they preserve, though their eyes be both out, for breed only of a true cock of the game.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Marionette and his friend, Lamp-Wick, when they saw each other both stricken by the same misfortune, instead of feeling sorrowful and ashamed, began to poke fun at each other, and after much nonsense, they ended by bursting out into hearty laughter.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

She had been the wife of a postmaster and was used to good living, but with her second husband she did not even have enough black bread; she pined away in her new life, and in three years or so gave up her soul to God.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He looked to find knives and revolvers in every belt, but saw no display of weapons, and noting the bluff, lumbering kindliness animating the crowd, he thought of his own small but carefully selected arsenal with some contempt.
— from In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson

However, we took little heed to the empty boaster, but went our ways down into the town of Girvan.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

It was not for us to dip into the future, farther than we could reasonably behold, but so far we were not only entitled, but bound, to go.
— from The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being the Personal Life and Memoirs of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by James Milne

Moreover, no one has suggested that the rustic shows were the origin of the Arcadian drama, so that it is to be presumed that Carducci had in mind the more or less frequent but still sporadic elements borrowed by the eclogues from the popular drama.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

Edited by B. Glanvill.
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León

As far as the actual navigation of the air is concerned, balloonists have had everything to themselves until quite recently, but we find that at the present moment, experimenters are dividing their attention about equally between balloons or machines lighter than the air, and true flying machines or machines heavier than the air.
— from Artificial and Natural Flight by Hiram S. (Hiram Stevens) Maxim

It was driven in the early Blériots by a 23-horsepower Anzani motor, but more lately the Blériot machines have carried Gnome motors.
— from The Boy's Book of New Inventions by Harry E. (Harry Edward) Maule

He is as immortal as Hamlet, and when hundreds of years shall have passed over this uncomfortably enlightened [173] world, the children of the future—who, thank Heaven, can never, with all our efforts, be born grown-up—will still tremble at the blood-stained key, and rejoice when the big brave brothers come galloping up the road.”
— from Down at Caxton's by William A. McDermott

The object, on which he was then occupied, assailed his mind, and heated his imagination: his head, continually at work, abounded in ideas, that diffused themselves in spite of him, and displayed themselves externally by broken words, and demonstrations of joy or anger, that afforded a clew to his designs, and entirely destroyed the mystery, in which he would have enveloped them.
— from Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

Also Memoirs, etc., by Barkhäusen, Brandt, Gomm, Moore, Naylies, Roveréa, Savary, Miot de Melito.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane